Community Living

As a freshman, you will be assigned to a residence hall based on your Residential Learning Community (RLC). After your first year, you can request a change in RLC, but your residence hall will always be determined by which RLC you belong to.

Living on campus is the best way to learn your way around, make friends who have common interests (and class schedules), and experience everything Santa Clara offers. About half of the undergraduate students at SCU live on campus for all four years.

For roommates to get along well, it is very important that they get to know one another as people. Roommates need to openly discuss certain things in the very beginning to avoid misunderstandings in the future.